>Decentralized systems do still have benefits even when they can be moderated. I wonder if there are many projects that actually allow that? Most of them, at l

>Decentralized systems do still have benefits even when they can be moderated. I wonder if there are many projects that actually allow that? Most of them, at least the successful ones. It's a bit worrying to me that we seem to start talking about decentralized services as a theoretical concept instead of a reality of the internet. Email is decentralized but every server typically has a bunch of rules to prevent abuse. Videogame servers used to be decentralized but still obviously attempted to limit cheating and allowed each admin to kick users and implement arbitrary restrictions and improvements. IRC allows mods in individual channels and ircops that can kline network-wide. The web itself is (?) decentralized but every server can arbitrarily decide what to host and not to host. It's a bit odd to me that some people in this thread seem to assume that lack of moderation is an inescapable side-effect of a decentralized system, this is obviously not the case. You can't censor the network as a whole but you still have free reign on your server. You're free to implement the rules you want on your node, the only risk is that you may end up being incompatible and fork from the rest of the network. That being said if the rules end up being useful and beneficial for the majority most people will use that version and the issue will be moot (e.g. people don't usually fork IRC servers to remove modding tools).